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Objects of Virtue
Luke Syson
Dora Thornton
其他書名
Art in Renaissance Italy
出版
Getty Publications
, 2001
主題
Art / History / General
Art / European
Art / History / Renaissance
Crafts & Hobbies / Decorating
History / Europe / Italy
History / Europe / Renaissance
ISBN
0892366575
9780892366576
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mNnNbvhsP2MC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and "character" was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue explores the multiple meanings and values of the objects with which families like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga surrounded themselves. This lavishly illustrated volume examines the complicated relationships between the so-called "fine arts"--painting and sculpture--and artifacts of other kinds for which artistry might be as important as utility-furniture, jewelry, and vessels made of gold, silver, and bronze, precious and semi-precious stone, glass, and ceramic. The works discussed were designed and made by artists as famous as Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, and Michelangelo, as well as by lesser-known specialists--goldsmiths, gem-engravers, glassmakers, and maiolica painters.